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second term changed dramatically in the course of only a week. we've seen a crush of developments involving three major controversies, a forced resignation, and new allegations of coverups. can the president recover. what does he need to do? let's go to the white house, our white house correspondent dan lothian is standing by. what's the strategy as far as damage control is concerned? >> reporter: wolf, the president wants to sort of put this behind him and turn the focus on his second term agenda. he promised and very much wants to deliver on immigration reform. the economy is a major concern, yes, unemployment is going down, but the president still wants to go out there, hit the road, focus on creating jobs for the middle class, and there are even the international issues that continue bubbling up and need to be resolved, there's syria, saw the president this week dealing with that during a visit of the prime minister from turkey. next week he will be meeting on another international issue with the president from myanmar.

so the president trying to focus on his agenda, but they realize here at the white house these scandals aren't going away any time soon, specifically the irs scandal. they realize how politically it could be very explosive. that's why you hear the president and will continue to hear the president vowing to work with congressional investigators to get answers, to get to the bottom of this. the president's justice department launched a criminal investigation, which takes all of this to a whole new level. we continue hearing the president having tough language, talking about he's angry about all of this, trying to come up with ways to prevent something like what happened at the irs from happening again. >> i am outraged by this in part because look, i'm a public figure. if a future administration is using tax laws to favor one party over another or one political view over another, obviously we're all vulnerable, and that's why as i've said,

doesn't matter whether you're a democrat or republican, you should be equally outraged at even the prospect that the irs might not be acting with the kind of complete neutrality we expect. and i think we're going to be able to fix it. >> reporter: i think in general there's bipartisan outrage, but republicans in particular aren't satisfied with what they're hearing. there's a lot of information they still think deserves more clear answers, and some folks out there, some of the republican critics think the president hasn't done enough. they want an apology from the president and then you hear suggestions that some people need to go to jail. wolf? >> they certainly make those suggestions out there. it's going to continue. dan lothian, thanks very much. not only president obama's troubles reenergied traditional republicans, there were points this week when the president himself was sounding just like his critics. listen to this.

>> my question isn't about who's going to resign. my question is who is going to jail over this scandal. >> it is inexcusable, americans have a right to be angry about it and i am angry about it. i will not tolerate this kind of behavior in any agency, but especially in the irs. >> this is run away government at its worst. who knows who they'll target next. >> it is simply unacceptable for there to even be a hint of partisanship or ideology when it comes to application of tax laws. >> let's discuss with our senior political analyst, da ron brownstein and candy crowley, from "state of the union." is the damage control from the white house working? >> not yet, but he is taking the right steps here. what do you first do with the irs. he is joining them, can't beat them, join them.

m angry, too, we will get to the bottom of this. with benghazi, let's look at the big picture, we need to protect the outposts. so i would like to ask congress for more money. his reaction to the other scandal basically was to say listen, or the other controversy anyway, i don't think this is going anywhere actually, the reporters and justice department getting a hold of the ap phone records. the fact is the president said, you know, it was a very dangerous leak and we needed to know who did it and that's what we're going after. i think if you're going to put protecting america and sources up against reporters in a poll, protecting americans and sources is going to win. the third element you need is time and a sense that the questions have been answered and you're not there, certainly not there on the irs. >> i think the irs controversy is a different magnitude than the other two.

on today's facts, nothing yet has come out that will substantially change his standing with the public. but comes out at any point there were political appointees from the administration involved in encouraging this targeted enforcement, it makes it a vastly more dangerous situation politically. even without direct impact on him, there are two indirect impacts that are very real. one, this is a powerful way to mobilize the base when the electorate tilts older and whiter. secondly, makes it harder to get things done in congress. that can be a two-edged sword. can hurt both parties. >> you make it clear not all three controversies can be described scandals. >> i think scandal is a pejorative term. the minute you use it, you have said -- attached it to the president. i think there are questions still out there all along the way on all of these, but you know, it is the jeannie out of the bottle.

they do it to republicans, do it to democrats. scandal is a word that gets people's attention. it is just that it is -- i don't know what the threshold is because we don't have a rule for that. >> it is sort of like pornography. the u.s. supreme court. you know once you see it whether it is a scandal. >> irs is more of a scandal than the other two. >> you write, like clinton, obama may feel constrained about reaching agreements with republicans on entitlements that anger liberals if he needs their support against gop investigations. >> we learned in the clinton era, effect of scandal is to send each side to opposing corners. on the one end, if the president needs congressional democrats to defend him against what is inevitably going to be a sustained series of hearings, it is going to be tougher to take deals on the budget and entitlements, maybe on immigration that they don't like. on the other side, i think it will empower portions of the republican party that don't want to make compromise with obama on anything.

the argument will be he is bleeding, staggering, don't throw him a life line. but the potential cost is if it makes it harder to get immigration, they may pay a price for that in 2016. >> the president doesn't have to run again, it is not a threat in the personal sense for him, but i think you can see this come to play in health care. it is just beginning to roll out, the sort of down side of it, the taxes and how is it going to work and how do you cover everybody. you're already hearing republicans up there going wait, the person that was in charge of this office at the irs is now in charge of implementing health care. i think it threatens his signature first term as well as what he wants to accomplish in the second term. >> the acting commissioner of the irs was forced out, steven miller, he was testifying on capitol hill. he said this. >> i think that what happened here was that foolish mistakes were made by people trying to be more efficient in their work load selection.

the listing described in the report while intolerable was a mistake and not an act of partisanship. >> just a foolish mistake. >> what a tough sell. >> one thing comes out of the inspector general report is that when a more senior official was informed of this, she said this is unacceptable, you have to look at both sides, then they proceeded to go back to what they were doing in the first place. so i think it is harder to sell it as a foolish mistake. there was at the least a conscious decision that resisted even intervention from higher levels that kept moving this direction, singling out the conservative groups. >> going to release new polls on state of the union sunday morning on how the american people see this. >> which will directly impact what we're discussing here, which is how does the president move forward, does he still have as the question was put to him before the juice to get some of these things done because they're not just major things, immigration and erg, maybe tax reform, though that's gone, does he have enough power to get

these on the table. and that's -- and look, it can go away, three months from now, remember when the president had a lousy spring? yeah, right. so -- >> see you sunday morning, 9:00 a.m., state of the union. ron, thanks for coming in as well. up next, the brother and sister of the victim as they call for jodi arias to get the death penalty and arias breaks down. will those tears seal her fate. waves of ice push ashore, crush lake front homes. and a cnn exclusive, inside guantanamo bay. we take you in the infirmary where prisoners on hunger strikes are being kept alive by force. [ female announcer ] can a body wash go beyond basic cleansing? olay ultra moisture body wash can with more moisturizers than seven bottles of the leading body wash. with ultra moisture your body wash is anything but basic soft, smooth skin with olay.

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the life or death drama of the jodi arias trial is set to resume monday when jurors decide her fate. will she live, will she die. this week after finding she killed her boyfriend with exceptional cruelty, the jury heard very emotional testimony from the brother and the sister of the victim, travis alexander. >> i thought my brother was bulletproof. i thought he was stronger than anything. he couldn't be cut down or knocked down. he was in two motorcycle crashes and walked away unharmed. he wrecked several cars and nothing happened to him. he rolled a snowmobile, again, not a scratch. he was unbreakable. who on earth would want to do this to him? for what reasons?

he wanted to move forward in life, to better himself and only to help others. why him? unfortunately i won't ever get the answers to most of my questions about my brother's death. questions like how much did he suffer. how much did he scream. what was he saying? what was the last thing he saw before his eyes closed? what was his final thought in his head? >> travis had an incredible heart. he had a huge heart. and it was this huge heart and his kindness that will forever be missed. we were robbed of so many good memories, so many awesome moments with travis. our lives will never be the

same. we can never get him back. we are so grateful for our wonderful brother and we feel so lucky and blessed for the time we had with travis, however short-lived. we would give anything to have him back, anything. >> our senior legal analyst jeffrey toobin is watching and listening. like all of us, jeff, very emotional statements today. how much do you believe this will effect the jury, who will decide whether she gets the death sentence or life in prison? >> well, i think it does matter. remember, what jodi arias' defense was in this case was

that her boyfriend was a monster, that he was a pedophile, he was an abuser, and by the way none of that was proven, and now they are seeing a very different side of him, a much more sympathetic side of him, which might make the jury even more angry at jodi arias. so it does seem to have some good deal of potential to be very damaging there. >> we're learning today that arias' defense attorneys tried to withdraw from the case after her conviction. the judge ruled they had to stay. so how common is this? >> it is very rare for attorneys to attempt to leave a case at the very, very end. there are only a few days left and the trial has gone on months and months. i don't think it takes a psychic to figure out that jodi arias has been a very difficult client. i can't imagine her lawyers authorized her to give that bizarre interview to the local fox reporter right after she was convicted where she said she

wanted to die and didn't want to be sentenced to life in prison. i am sure she has been a very difficult client, but to take this step is unusual. it is not surprising, though, the judge said no, you couldn't possibly bring in new lawyers to master a case this long and complicated at this late stage of a case, she made sure the lawyers stayed on. >> if she does testify, we assume she will, do you believe she will say what she said in that fox interview after she was convicted of first degree murder, that she would prefer the death sentence? >> that's a great question, and i don't know. obviously she's a very unpredictable person. her lawyers previewed her testimony, her lawyers told the jury that she is going to testify. so presumably they would not put her up there if she was going to say to the jury please execute me, but you know, this is an unpredictable woman, it is an unpredictable situation. i think she won't say that, but no one can be sure. >> jeffrey toobin, thank you.

15 murder cases are under review right now in new york city due to new questions emerging about the lead detective involved. our mary snow has the details. >> reporter: wolf, questions emerged about tactics used by a detective described as one of the most active in this brooklyn homicide unit in the '80s and '90s. it came into focus after one man spent decades in prison only to have his conviction thrown out. it was this rare reversal that is prompting prosecutors to review 50 murder convictions. >> sir, you are free to go. >> reporter: david ranta was freed after 20 years for a murder he insisted he didn't commit. a prosecutor reexamined the case after a witness revealed he was pressured to identify him in a lineup. the practices of lead detective came into question. now two months later, the d.a.'s office will reopen dozens of

files for review in cases linked to that same detective, looking for red flags such as convictions based on one eyewitness or confessions not corroborated by other evidence. derrick hamilton wants his case to be among them. he is out on parole after spending two decades in prison for a 1991 murder. >> i want to fight this case, clear my name because i didn't kill this man. >> reporter: he says he was arrested by the man in question, and came after he spent seven years in prison for a previous conviction on manslaughter and robbery charges. >> he said to me i know you didn't kill this guy, but you going back to prison for your last crime. you didn't do enough time for that. >> reporter: the detective is retired officer lewis gar sell a, seen in march when we first caught up with him at his home. >> ma'am, i didn't do anything wrong. >> reporter: when we contacted him about the review of his cases, he told us he didn't have comment, but he did speak to "the new york times" who first

broke the story. asked about derrick hamilton's claims, he is quoted by the times as saying he can drop dead. the man is an out and out liar. attorney jonathan edelstein represents derrick hamilton. >> after reviewing the case, i decided mr. hamilton was the real thing. >> you did? >> yes. >> even though he spent several years in prison on manslaughter. >> yes. i mean, the fact that somebody has priors doesn't mean that he committed the crime that he is in prison for now. >> reporter: he says he has witnesses that can prove his client wasn't at the murder scene. he commends the d.a.'s office for reviewing cases and says even though derrick hamilton is out of prison, he is still on parole for life. >> what we want to do is clear his name, get him off parole, and not have him bear the stigma of a convicted murderer. >> reporter: the brooklyn d.a.'s

office declined our request for an interview. one question that's been raised is whether the detective in question could face charges if misconduct is found. a spokesman for the d.a.'s office says it is unlikely because of the statute of limitations. wolf? >> mary snow in new york, amazing story there as well. thank you. up next, like a frozen tsunami, a wall of ice up to 30 feet high in some places pushing into lake front homes. then amid the violence, there's hip-hop music, fast food restaurants. talking about libya. anthony bourdain takes us this this weekend in parts unknown. he joins us here in "the situation room" with a preview. at university of phoenix we kis where it can take you.cation (now arriving: city hospital) which is why we're proud to help connect our students with leading employers across the nation. (next stop: financial center)

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it looks and sounds like something from a sci-fi movie but it is all too real. giant tsunami like ice waves some as high as 30 feet, creeping on shore, slamming into homes and destroying them. lisa sylvester has the unbelievable details. >> reporter: a menacing slow moving wall of ice. you can hear the ice crackling as it gets closer, it sounds more like the chugging of a train rolling in. >> it is crawling up the walls of the houses. >> reporter: and roll in it did. >> oh, my god, their door is in. >> reporter: darla johnson shot this as it approached a row of townhouses. >> i got pretty scared this might not stop. >> reporter: high winds helped push massive ice flows off the lake into the homes of worried neighbors. everyone is calling it an ice

tsunami. >> but it is not an ice tsunami, it is an ice shove. that's a surge of ice that moved on shore, whether it be a lake body or ocean body onto a coastal shoreline, typically caused by wind conditions like it was in this case. >> reporter: the ice is semi melted. with a consistent strong wind, it pushes from the center out, as it builds creates its own sail. the wind picks it up and momentum carries it ashore. minnesota wasn't the only area impacted. further north in canada in manitoba, it destroyed or damaged more than two dozen homes or cabins. >> bang, ice came through the living room here. he said grab your purse, grab whatever you can, get the keys, we got to get out of here. >> reporter: this is what's left of a renovated cabin on ok

earthquaoker beach. >> it is a big roar. you can see it coming, you think it is not coming any farther, going to stop, but it just kept coming. >> reporter: a freaky weather phenomenon common in alaska but not minnesota. bad news for homeowners, many insurance policies don't cover the damage. lisa sylvester, cnn. detainees on a hunger strike being kept alive by force. and dark glasses and a bundle of cash. russia orders a u.s. diplomat out of the country saying he was packing all the tools of the spy trade. [ male announcer ] purpose elevates what we do. raises it to a more meaningful place. makes us live what we do, love what we do and fills our work with rewarding possibility. aarp connects you to a community

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all week, cnn has been getting access to guantanamo bay

in cuba where dozens of detainees are participating in a hunger strike that forced officials to take drastic measures to keep them alive. here is our pentagon correspondent chris lawrence on the scene. >> reporter: cnn got a firsthand look at the shackles, tubes, liquids being used to feed 30 detainees who refuse to eat. >> this end goes in the nostril. >> reporter: a tube up their nose, down the throat, into their stomach. supplements are pumped in 30 to 45 minutes. some refuse food but will drink supplements if ordered to. these 30 have to be forced. >> it is a tough mission. kind of an ugly place sometimes. >> reporter: that's the detention group senior medical officer, speaking for the first time since the medical profession condemned to feeding. >> are you concerned the american medical association came out against this practice? >> again, there's lots of politics involved. i'm sure they have internal politics they need to answer to as well. >> reporter: he has to remain

anonymous for security reasons. as a doctor, he stands by the methods used at guantanamo bay. >> it is east to make decisions you think you would implement. >> reporter: it marks the 100th day friday, shows no signs of stopping. cnn obtained handwritten letters from one of the detainee's. one reads be tortured, stay detained. another quotes a french writer about how your very existence becomes an act of rebellion. he sounds hopeless when he writes the commissions are a joke. if you lose, you go to prison for life. if you win, you're held indefinitely for life. >> we don't have a goal to, quote, break the hunger strike. we have a mission to preserve life through lawful means. >> reporter: defense attorneys say shackling and sticking a tube into the stomach is inhumane. >> you don't get to about here in the throat because tears are

streaming down your face. >> reporter: they showed us the numbing gel they offer, say the tubes are thin and lubricated. >> nobody expressed it hurts. >> reporter: attorneys say their clients say otherwise. >> said he never felt pain like that in his life. >> reporter: that's amazing when you consider the client she's talking about has been detained here 11 years. we have learned the hunger strike has jumped from 100 to 102 detainees. the largest level in seven or eight years. chris lawrence, cnn, guantanamo bay, cuba. >> tension between the guards and detainees at guantanamo is reaching disturbing levels. here is chris's look inside. we want to warn our viewers, some of what you're about to see and hear is very graphic. >> reporter: cnn got exclusive access to camps five and six where most of the detainees are being held. we saw individual cells, media rooms with leg shackles bolted to the ground, and communal

areas that used to be filled with detainees. >> right now, the camp's six detainees are held in individual cells like these. patrolling the cells, young guards, the age of college students. for the first time, we are seeing the faces of those that guard the detainees. >> they use extremely vulgar language towards females. had a lot of experience with that unfortunately, especially caucasian females, they do not like us at all. >> reporter: she's 21, and down in the cell block been called every name in the book. >> most common one, [bleep], they say things like i'll piss all over your face, they'll say you've had [bleep] thrown on you, you have been disrespected, nobody wants you, you're trash now. >> reporter: the situation is dire. a hunger strike has gone from a half dozen detainees to more than 100. of those, about 30 refuse to take the liquid nutritional drinks, have to be fed through a

tube. officials admit the clock is ticking on this option. >> if anybody had a can of ensure or muscle milk or whatever, it says on it, it is not designed to be long term sole source of nutrition. there are long term consequences of getting all your meals through a liquid supplement. >> reporter: all this tension leads to more conflict, including so-called splashing, where detainees squirt guards with a mix of water, urine, feces. >> that's the biggest way to act out, throw feces at guards. it has been happening consistently actually for the past month and a half. every single day there's a splashing. >> you can see the results of some of the splashing here on the ceiling, pieces of feces stuck to the top of the ceiling. >> reporter: one guard was splashed several times. >> they'll take your blood, let you know if you got any

diseases, then you go back to work. >> reporter: she says it is all you can do to bottle it up, walk away. the young guard worked at fort leavenworth before coming here, she says there's no comparison between the two. chris lawrence, guantanamo bay, cuba. >> excellent, exclusive reporting from kwis. wigs, dark glasses and large bundle of foreign cash. that's what the spy agency found with a u.s. diplomat now accused of espionage. an extraordinary rendition of space oddity as you've never heard it from space. you'll want to see this and hear it. ♪

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his alleged cover was blown in a spectacular way. if russian intelligence is true, ryan fogle's days as a spy are almost surely over. he is accused trying to recruit a russian double agent. cnn's brian todd is learning more about his background. >> reporter: russian officials he is a cia spy trying to , say recruit a russian operative to spy for the americans. in a youtube video released for russian television, he is heard angrily chastising him. >>translator: you know the fsb is actively helping in the investigation in the bombing in boston. >> reporter: the man video taped wearing a ridiculous wig seems

to have a background not so ridiculous. according to officials at schools we contacted, officials that looked at the pictures of him, this is likely the same ryan fogle that grew up near st. louis, went to mary institute and st. louis country day school, a private institution that cost nearly $23,000 a year for upper grades. he graduated from mary institute in 2002. then according to school officials went to colgate. he was a straight arrow, achiever. a member of a fraternity that doesn't allow drinking in its houses. and he was selected for senior honor society, a prestige is group with only 26 members. he said ryan was a student of his on a class on national security. says his interest was in middle east politics and class trip to meet diplomats stands out. >> ryan was especially strong in

the way that he posts questions, the way he was prepared for meetings with diplomats, he was one of the sophomores on the trip, he was especially poised and mature the way he handled himself with diplomats. >> reporter: he graduated from colgate with a double major in political science and international relations. his fast track career may have hit a snag. intelligence experts say if he is in the cia, he will never be able to go back to russia, likely won't work undercover again. we called and e-mailed a st. louis area couple we strongly believe are his parents to see if they would comment on the story. we didn't hear back. the cia has also not commented. brian todd, cnn, washington. just ahead, ahmed the violence, hip-hop music, fast food restaurants in libya. anthony bore taken takes us there this weekend. in parts unknown, he joins us here in the "the situation room" with a preview next.

turmoil with tragic significance. anthony bourdain goes to libya in "parts unknown." it airs sunday night and he joins us with a preview. we're excited, anthony bourdain is here in "the situation room." is this your first time in "the situation room"? >> it is. it is a dream come true. >> what do you think, impressive? >> swank. >> it is not libya though. what was it like? >> one word, inspiring. it was a very inspiring place to

go. >> inspiring politically or, you know, as far as food is concerned? >> well, not so much for food but i got the sense, you know, you watch the news and you wonder who did these things. who overthrew this monstrous dictator, who are these people. again and again, i find there were young people, many who studied abroad, returned to fight, made themselves into militias almost overnight. i mean, it was a heartbreaking, a lot of earnest people who expressed a desire to remake their country such that they could enjoy things. they would say we just want the things europe has. >> was the arab spring, we all had so many great expectations as far as arab spring in north africa and the middle east was concerned, does it seem to be playing out there in a positive sense? we're hearing about al qaeda and resurgence, anti-american. we know what happened in benghazi last september 11th.

>> all i kept hearing was we got rid of gadhafi, we can fix this. nobody said everything is going to be great in a year. everyone there said it will take five, ten years to, you know, have something resembling a cohesive, functioning government. now it is a do it yourself system, everything from traffic direction, basic social services seem to be done on a voluntary basis by different militias with different agendas. i again and again bumped into kids who wanted -- >> in tripoli. >> tripoli and mesrata, young people that wanted simple, not scary things. their aspirations for their country seemed to be things that i could understand and relate to. they just wanted to join the 21st century. very different than what i hope it works.

were you ever scared? >> uncomfortable al times but i think that's probably something that real correspondents do all the time. i was much more excited and intrigued by the people i met. that was something that really surprised me. >> let's talk food. how was the food? >> pretty simple. traditional mesh weed, whole roasted goat or lamb, this is something i'm used to, beach barbecue, meat on a stick. the surprise to me were the first attempts at recreating american fast food which is something the kids really want. we went to a place called uncle con tacky which is a kentucky fried chicken knock off since they're not exactly franchising over there. in the interim they're doing it themselves and trying to create something that looks and feels like american fast food. >> no tourists really for all

practical purposes. >> to. >> mediterranean is fabulous. if there were real peace and stability that place would be trooifing. >> trip poly still has the architect chur, still some italian cooking traditions left over from the italians. fantastic seafood. there are people there that would like to hurt us and there are forces at work in libya that would like to turn back the clock and keep things chaotic. the sense i got every day was hopeful though of people struggling to join the rest of the world. >> and food, it's a question i always wanted to ask you because you eat everything and you taste everything. you're a lot more daring than i am ever. do you ever get sick? do you ever react is?

or is your staming used to this stuff? >> i'm a professional so my crew does pretty well. i have found again and again you are far more likely to get sick from the hotel breakfast buffet than eating the local feed. none of these places are in business day after day by poisoning their neighbors. the hotel breakfast buffet is a transient clientele. the breakfast buffet, the agos are lethal. >> the water. >> caesar salad would not be a good option there. >> sunday night, 9 p.m. eastern. by the way, i loved the tran jern. you're doing excellent work thanks for joining us.

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>> she found a dog nursing a young kitten around the creek. hot shots, pictures coming in from around the world. >> it's david bowie's classic space odyssey performed like you've never heard it before from space. >> ♪ ground control to major >> he will be forever known as the singing astronaut then international space commander said a version of david bowie's hit, space odyssey. ♪ it has folks on earth over the moon ♪ >> that's really his voice and guitar playing recorded up there with more music mixed by producers on the ground. chris's son described it as -- >> unbelievable fun to do.

it took sixes month. >> even another commander spawned it in cyberspace. william shat ner joked, i have two words for him, show off. >> david bow wee himself tweeted asht the song. hello space boy, which is the name of another bowie song. this was the canadian's grand finale after heading home after being in space. >> even before he covered bowie, chris was winning fans demonstrating how astronauts brush their teeth with no running water. >> so what i do is i just swallow the tooth paste. >> he did a sung along with hundreds of school kids back on earth. in an effort to demonstrate not just the science of space but -- >> the humanity of it. >> he even poured water in his

eye to show what happens when astronauts cry. >> you end up with a bigger ball of water. >> the astronaut took some minor tweaking with the lyrics. one major change from his version -- ♪ gone is the part bowie sang about a major malfunction. there's something so touching about it and if ground control makes you loose control, at least you'll shed a tear and not a water ball. je . ♪ >> i love that. excellent. remember you can always follow what's going on in "the situation room" on twitter. you can tweet me at wolf blitzer, you can tweet the show

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